Book review | 'How to Create a Mind' by Ray Kurzweil

10:03 PM,
Nov. 23, 2012

Written by

Scott Coffman
| Books Editor

In the compelling introduction, we are told the story of evolution in a most entertaining fashion: that the world is based on information. Physics evolved and became chemistry, chemistry evolved into biology, biology to neurology. "(B)rains were now the cutting edge of storing and manipulating information. Thus we went from atoms to molecules to DNA to brains. The next step was uniquely human."

Evolutionary development in mammals has been different from that of every other animal. In humans, the neocortex processes thinking on a hierarchical level: Understanding the many parts that ...